by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
We do not play on graves
Language: English
We do not play on graves because there isn't room. Besides it isn't even. It slants and people come and put a flower on it and hang their faces so. We're fearing that their hearts will drop and crush our pretty play. And so we move as far as enemies away, just looking round to see how far it is occasionally.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Arnold Jordahl (b. 1926), "We do not play on graves" [ voice and flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon ], from Death and the Maiden, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-02-16
Line count: 11
Word count: 61